git: 'number' is not a git command.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Just 'make' on the Mavericks.
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I see this message like:

$ VERBOSE=1 NACL_ARCH=pnacl TOOLCHAIN=pnacl make lua-ppapi
bin/naclports install lua-ppapi -v
IsInstalled: lua-ppapi -> False
IsInstalled: lua5.2 -> False
IsInstalled: lua5.2 -> False
IsInstalled: readline -> False
IsInstalled: readline -> False
IsInstalled: ncurses -> False
IsInstalled: ncurses -> False
IsInstalled: glibc-compat -> False
IsInstalled: glibc-compat -> False
Prebuilt package was built with different SDK version: 38 vs 35
*** Building 'glibc-compat' [pnacl/newlib/release]
git: 'number' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
naclports: Building glibc-compat: failed.
make: *** [lua-ppapi] Error 1

In the build_tools/common.sh, I found the message:
    # TODO(sbc): find a replacement for git number.  It seems that its not
    # designed for normal use like this.  'git describe' would work but
    # requires a tag in the git repo which we currently don't have.

If there are any workaround, let me know please.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I am using pepper_35 on the Mavericks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by goi...@gmail.com on 10 Sep 2014 at 9:43

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We switched to using 'git describe'

Original comment by sbc@google.com on 29 Sep 2014 at 11:01

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Original comment by sbc@google.com on 29 Sep 2014 at 11:01

• Changed state: Fixed